Newton Community Education

Great news I am talking with Newton Community Education to do a fall class on fashion at Newton South High School
I want to discuss how to analyze your look, your closet, your future 2014 style. I will talk about purging your current closet and how to sell your wares. We will look at self-organizing and how to buy less...
September date will probably be Wednesday September 25th but more to follow on the details.
Save the Date!

Ballet and Fashion meet up at the Mall at Chestnut Hill

I had the good fortune of having Tina Sutton in the store on Monday. Tina has been a great friend to Eileen Fisher in the Boston area over the years I have worked for the company. You can often find Tina writing about fashion for the Boston Globe but she shared a new project she has been working on with us! In a follow up email to her visit she shared the blog with me and I find all that she is writing about these days so fascinating. 

Check out what she shared with us earlier this week:

I'm posting a blog on Chanel's ill-fated foray into costume design for the Ballets Russes on themakingofmarkova.com. It's a funny story if you have a moment to check it out.

Thank you for your kind wishes and look forward to stopping by again soon.  All Best - Tina

Treasure

I moved last May-September 2012. My entire life in boxes. Still today I am going through those boxes and attempting to get organized and distill down to what I really need and want to keep/own. Twenty five years worth of stuff... daunting... wonderful... sad... memorable...
I found this from 2008 and I love it. Brenda became my client around 2004 and when she wrote this she had certainly become my friend. Now five years later she is my treasured friend and customer.
I love the letter even now when I read it.

680 Pleasant Street

Framingham, MA 01701

January 11, 2008

Dear Eileen Fisher, 

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your generous gift card and the gorgeous book on Women Who Light the Dark. It was inspiring and enlightening to learn of the work being done to help these people and the positive results. 

I am very fortunate to have an Eileen Fisher boutique nearby. Your clothes are beautiful, comfortable, made of wonderful fabrics and so classic. I love them!

I enjoy wearing them, and I always have a smile on my face while shopping and when I leave the boutique. 

I'm especially lucky that Lisa Schraffa at the Chestnut Hill store, was the gal who helped me on my first visit a few years ago. She is awesome. She is knowledgeable, hardworking, and has a great sense of style.  Her personality is sincere, upbeat and a pleasurable experience- a true friend. 

I wish you well. I hope there will always be an Eileen Fisher in my life. And a Lisa Schraffa to "dress" me. 

Thank you, and I wish you a healthy and happy new year. 

Sincerely, 

Brenda Thaler

No words...

I wish I were a writer and could eloquently put to paper or blogger sphere something profound. I cannot. I have no words. To form word would be to acknowledge all the many emotions. I have yet to sort those out. Shock, disbelief, anger, fear, denial, and back again to shock. I wish I could be one of those people that leaps to one's feet and is courageous, brave and filled with the call to action. I am one of the people who sits and frets and bites one's nails and uses social media to reach out and see what is going on and to try to connect with others. I freeze most often in the face of danger. This was one big ugly face. I wonder about all the lives changed. Those families who lost loved ones and who did not lose a life but a limb. Those families related to the suspects. Those of us who were locked up in the USA in their own homes for a day while this was running it's course. So many elements have played out to change us all. I can only say that if this means we do something nicer, better, with more compassion, ease, wonder, loving kindness then maybe just maybe it was all not for naught.
Again, I wish I were a writer, I wish I could pen something meaningful but alas I can only say this, thank GOD more blood was not shed. Let's pray that this is the end. Let's help one another heal.

Words to live by...

http://jmcurleyboston.com/law-order/

I love it no matter how many times I ready it, it says it all!
JM CURLEY-thanks visit them at 21 Temple Place Boston